Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

The cluster centers on security risks of CPU speculative execution, particularly Spectre and Meltdown exploits, debating if it's inherently insecure, possible mitigations, and real-world attacks.

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willis936 Jun 25, 2023 View on HN

How is speculative execution inherently insecure?

s4vi0r Jan 4, 2018 View on HN

Spectre relies on tricking the CPU into branch predicting its way into accessing protected memory, no? Is it not possible that we can keep most of the performance benefits of speculative execution by somehow having a built in "Hey, never ever speculate that I'll want to access this region of memory" sort of thing?

cabirum Sep 12, 2022 View on HN

Is it even possible to have speculative execution and not being vulnerable to related exploits?

valleyer Jan 7, 2020 View on HN

Aren't AMD processors (and virtually every processor with speculative execution) vulnerable to Spectre?

bityard Aug 26, 2022 View on HN

Has there ever been a practical speculative execution attack found in the wild?

amelius Jun 7, 2019 View on HN

Does it have speculative execution vulnerabilities?

ggu7hgfk8j Dec 1, 2024 View on HN

Speculation attacks enables code running on the machine to access data it shouldn't. I don't see how that relates to your scenario.

nisegami Sep 1, 2021 View on HN

Is that out of concern for speculative execution security issues a la spectre & meltdown?

ghaff Jan 4, 2018 View on HN

Apparently potentially: Red Hat Security statement https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculati...

sylware Jun 16, 2023 View on HN

Speculative execution is not fixed in modern CPUs? Or this is related to old ones?_